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Chapter 5 - Nominals Flashcards

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nominative case is literally the ___________case

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naming

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3 aspects of nominal usage

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1 agreement
2 stems/declensions
3 articles and possessive pronouns

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refers to people TOGETHER WITH WHOM something gets done

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Instrumental case translated as with his/her/its group

e.g.Krishna went into the forest WITH HIS FRIENDS

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words following a noun that express or support case function

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Postpositions

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a dative noun that expresses purpose of an action can either be a ________/__________ or it can be __________ _______.

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thing/object

or

another action

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Ablative case

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expresses the source of an action

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Sanskrit scholars referred to Sanskrit cases simply as _________, __________, and so on

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first, second, and so on

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definition of case

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the way nominals forms can play different roles in a sentence

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verbs that take accusative direct objects

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transitive verbs

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Genitive case

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gives more information about another noun

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saha, vinā, and prati

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the three most common postpositions

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Nominal forms

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nouns or substantives
pronouns
adjectives
participles (adjectives formed from verbs - e.g. running water)

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Vocative case

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used to address someone

e.g. O King, Old Man, why do sit there?

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He has a daughter.

Literally in sanskrit - A daughter is of him

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genitive case type as a use of english verb of being (to be) so as to express the idea of possession

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________, ___________, and __________ have different forms fir each gender .

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adjectives, pronouns, participles

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listing of the 8 nominal form cases

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Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Instrumental
Dative
Ablative
Genitive
Locative
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vinā is a common ________________

that means _____________

when used with a noun of one of these cases: ____________, ____________, or ____________.

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postposition

“without”

accusative, instrumental, or ablative

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a dative case sentence using “for” with another action to express purpose

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I give this to you for safekeeping.

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This was done by him.

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genetive case type marked with english “by” used to express the agent of a passive verb.

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number of sanskrit cases for nominal forms

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8

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the three qualifiers of nouns

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adjectives, pronouns and particples _____ _________ ___ nouns

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forms of gender

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masculine, feminine, neuter

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Nominative case

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the subject of a sentence and anything referring to that subject

e.g. HE is the KING

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five types of english translation markings for locative case

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1-3) any place in space or time,
in, on, at, near,
which something takes place

4) expressing the idea of among in dual or plural
5) expressing the goal of motion (called preganant ______ ) marked as english “into”

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Accusative case
used to express the direct object of a verb; that which is affected by the action of a verb or a goal (or target) of a motion e.g. cat scratches a POST, gods grant a BOON, sage goes TO FOREST
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whenever an adjective, pronoun, or participle qualifies a noun, it has to ________ _______ this noun in all of the categories nouns are marked for _________, ___________, and __________.
________, _________, or _________ must agree with case, number, gender
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She did someting good for him. She did something bad to him.
genitive case type with english for/to used to express someone indirectly involved in or concerned with an action
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a noun that expresses the purpose of an an action
Dative case
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form of sanskrit that uses accusative singular of adjectives and nouns
adverbs
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genitive english translation marker
of
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prati is a common ________________ meaning ___________, ___________, _____________ Used after a noun in the ________________ _______.
postposition towards, concerning, about accusative case
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prati
a noun in the accusative + ____________; “towards, concerning, about”
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dative is literally the __________ case
giving case
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saha is a common _______________ meaning ____________ ____________. Used after a noun of the ___________ __________.
postposition “together with” instrumental case
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Hyranyakaśipu acted out of anger. | Kamsa acted from anger.
ablative case type as any reason for/because of which something occurs or takes place
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refers to the person BY WHOM something gets done
Instrumental case e.g. the cake was made by her
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we came from the city | we came out of the city
ablative case type as the place from which a movement originates
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a dative case example using a “for” with a noun as an object to express purpose
She is running for the gold medal.
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We heard this from the spiritual master.
ablative case type as a person from whom something proceeds
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_____________ have one inherent gender
substantives (nouns)
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saha
a noun in the instrumental + ________; “together with”
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Instrumental case
used to express the instrument (tool) or agency by which something is done. in english marked as with or by e.g. we see with eyes, cut with knife, cake made by her, went to forest with his friends
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a __________ ____________ expresses the goal of motion with the english marking “into”
pregnant locative
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type of language sanskrit is called because it uses regular endings to express concepts such as case, number, gender in nouns, or tense, person, mood, voice, in verbs
inflected language
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Categories that nominal forms express
case number gender
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ablative case types expressing source
place from which a movement originate time from which something is done person from whom something proceeds any reason for/because of which somtheing occurs or takes place
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Locative case
used to express a location or any place in space or time
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ablative is literally the ______ ______ ______ case
carry-away from case
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vinā
a noun in the instrumental, accussative, or ablative + _________; “without”
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ablative english translation markers
from out from out of
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They had been walking from dawn. | It has been raining since yesterday.
ablative case type as the time from which somthing is done

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